Web Programming and Internet Technologies

Web Programming and Internet Technologies: An E-Commerce Approach is written for the one-term web programming course for first or second year students. I features a hands-on learning approach where students are provided with information on a need to know basis. The text provides a running case study throughout, and students then take the topics taught in each chapter and apply them to the development of an e-commerce website. At the end of the text students will have a fully functional e-commerce site!

4.1 The Rationale for CSS, and a Brief History.

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Preface; Typographic and other Conventions; 1 Setting the Scene; 1.1 What Is the Internet?; 1.2 What Is the World Wide Web?; 1.3 What Is Meant by a Client-Server Architecture?; 1.4 How Do Web Browsers and Web Servers Fit the Client-Server Model?; 1.5 How Do Web Browsers and Web Servers Communicate?; 1.5.1 Web Protocols and Layered Communication Architectures; 1.5.2 Web Addresses and Address Resolution via DNS; 1.5.3 URLs, URNs, and URIs; 1.6 A Real-World E-Commerce Website; 1.7 The Technologies We Will Discuss.

1.8 Some Alternative Technologies and Additional ToolsSummary; Quick Questions to Test Your Basic Knowledge; Short Exercises to Improve Your Basic Understanding; Exercises on the Parallel Project; What Else You May Want or Need to Know; References; 2 Establishing a Web Presence; 2.1 What Is an Internet Service Provider (ISP)?; 2.2 What Tools Will You Need to Begin Your Web Development?; 2.3 How Do You Create a Simple, Static Web Page?; 2.4 How Do You Test a Web Page "Offline" before "Going Online"?; 2.5 How Do You "Go Live" on the Web Once You're Ready?; Summary.

Quick Questions to Test Your Basic Knowledg…